St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-25

| Hand Club, and. this reminds me of the
| decline which We now witness IN anna
teur coaching. The club just named,
and the Coaching Club, both opened Tor
the season within the past few days.
| Never were the gatherings SO small !;
not more than twenty coaches, believe,
in either case. These, however, do not
represent the total number of our metro
politan fourth hands The Brightons,
the Tunbridge, the St. Adams, the
Windsor, and several other private
coaches were all running on set stage
routes indepeno 'ntly of the greater
swells who mus cred in Hyde Park.
What an amount If wealth these coaches
represent Some those which run to the
towns just named require from twenty
to thirty animals to horse them, and the
average value of these animals cannot
be less than ESQ apiece. 1t is no un-
common price to to give ESQ to f12O for
a good "wheeler:" and scarcely one
of these coaches pays expenses.
The loss upon he best of them
often rises to FL ,0OJ for the season, even
where the fare is FL or Fl IS for return
journey, which may be accomplished by
railway for less than half that sum. But
in an English railway car running forty
five TO sixty miles an hour you flash
across the country without time to see its
beauties. By coach you are taken through
landscapes whose roughness makes them
to be avoided by the railways, though it
adds largely to their loveliness. Very
few Londoners, who only travel by rail-
way, know anything of the beauties that
are to be found within thirty miles of
their own dwelling houses. I reel
hardly add that these private coaches are
all worked" by rich men, with taste
for horsedesh. Wet or shine, most OF
them stick to their box all through the
season.
Respecting these swell "whips," I can
recount true story. Lord Beehive had
just brought his drag to the well-known
starting place, the White Horse cellars,
in Piccadilly. 1t was wet day, and he
was dressed in drab overcoat, with cape
and big buttons, looking not unlike an
ordinary cab driver. While standing in
the bar he was seen by warm hearted
Lancashire man, who said: "Cubby,
you look cold; have drink" Thanks"
replied his lordship, II generally pay for
myself" NAY, man." said the other,
then you've proud stomach, for
never yet saw coachman that would
not take a drink" Lord Beehive at
length yielded, took the proffered liquor,
and found that his Lancashire friend
was rough, self-made man, who owned
small shooting estate adjoining his lord
ships paternal acres in the north of Eng
land.
The English funds-three per cent.
consols-have this week reached
higher figure than has ever been known
since their creation in 1851. They have
touched 1881. The lowest price to which
they have fallen was in 1S4S, the year of
revolutions, when they sold for IS. At
the present moment, therefore, British
credit stands high, and money is dirt
cheap. 1t can be borrowed in the open
market for less than one per cent. 1t is
only half per cent. for the day; three
quarters per cent. for fixtures; and one
per cent. for three months bills! A diff
ferent proof of the cheapness of money
may be found in the price list of recent
west end wine sale, when some magnums
double bottles) of champagne sold for
f40 the dozen.
1t is owing to the plentiful supply of
money in the English market that the
London Stock Exchange is just now
being Hooded with so many new public
companies. Some of them are so OBJ
viously intended to pluck the speculative
pigeon that ones surprise is excited not
at the promised amount of interest, but
at the audacity of the promoters. Many
OF them are Australian gold miners, for
though the market had huge disappoint-
ments with these attractions some months
since, new ventures are being brought
out. Many of these gilded pills will prove
heavy of digestion.
What to do with our daughters is a
standing and vexatious question to the
British father. How to find employment
for the girls of the middle class is, in
deed, a serious problem. 1t is cheering,
therefore, to learn that some one has
struck upon the idea of employing
women as house decorators. In the
handsome house of Mrs. Avant, in Vic
toria street, is charming collection of
artistic work for identifying our houses
There are designs for walls, windows,
furniture; there are also specimens of
painted glass, wood carvings and hang
ings-all showing the great advance
which is now being made in E4Glish
domestic art. Every field of labor that
Is opened for the employment of women,
of well-educated women,
will be welcomed by the heads of fam
lies.
While Parliament is debating what it
shall do for the good of Ireland, Mrs.
Ernest Hart, wife of the well-known
loctor, is doing great work in Donegal.
Three years ago she started upon her
task with good heart and
! few pounds of yarn. This years
turnout of her cottage industries will
each 100000 yards of homespun. Eight
hundred persons are employed in this
work, and in knitting embroidery
nd lace making. Many of the yarns
re colored with dyes extracted from ma
i've lichens and bog plants.
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